Analyze YouTube Analytics Data in Infragistics Reveal

Reveal is a data visualization solution provided by Infragistics and can be paired with the CData API Server to build dynamic dashboards from live YouTube Analytics data. The CData API Server generates an OData API for YouTube Analytics, which is natively consumable in Reveal. In this article, we walk through connecting to YouTube Analytics in API Server and connecting to the API Server from Infragistics Reveal to create a simple dashboard.

Connect to YouTube Analytics from API Server

CData API Server uses a straightforward, point-and-click interface to connect to data sources and generate APIs.

1. Open API Server and click Settings -> Connection -> Add Connection 👁 Adding a connection
   
2. Select "YouTube Analytics" 👁 Selecting a Connector (Salesforce is shown).
   
3. Enter the necessary authentication properties to connect to YouTube Analytics.

   YouTube Analytics uses the OAuth authentication standard. You can use the embedded CData OAuth credentials or you can register an application with Google to obtain your own.

   In addition to the OAuth values, to access YouTube Analytics data set ChannelId to the Id of a YouTube channel. You can obtain the channel Id in the advanced account settings for your channel. If not specified, the channel of the currently authenticated user will be used.

   If you want to generate content owner reports, specify the ContentOwnerId property. This is the Id of the copyright holder for content in YouTube's rights management system. The content owner is the person or organization that claims videos and sets their monetization policy.

   👁 Configuring a connection (Salesforce is shown).
   

Add YouTube Analytics Resource Definitions in API Server

After connecting to YouTube Analytics, create Resources, which represent API endpoints for YouTube Analytics data.

1. Click Settings -> Resources -> Add Resource 👁 Adding a new resource
   
2. Select the YouTube Analytics connection 👁 Selecting a connection (Salesforce is shown)
   
3. Select the table you wish to retrieve and click Next 👁 Selecting a Table (Salesforce is shown)
   
4. (Optional) Edit the resource to select specific fields and more
5. Save the settings

Add an API Server User

Create a User to connect to YouTube Analytics from Reveal through API Server.

1. Click Settings -> Users
2. Click Add
3. Configure a User with access to the YouTube Analytics Connection and Resource(s) 👁 Creating a new user
   

(Optional) Configure Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)

When accessing and connecting to multiple different domains from an application such as Ajax, there is a possibility of violating the limitations of cross-site scripting. In that case, configure the CORS settings in Settings -> Server.

• Enable cross-origin resource sharing (CORS): ON
• Allow all domains without '*': ON
• Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, PUT, POST, OPTIONS
• Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Authorization

Save the changes to the settings.

Create a Dashboard in Reveal

With the API Server configured, we can visualize YouTube Analytics data in Reveal.

1. Log into Reveal and click Dashboards -> New 👁 Adding a new dashboard
   
2. Click Data Source -> OData Feed 👁 Adding a new OData data source
   
3. Specify the API Server API endpoint URL, for example: https://serverurl/api.rsc 👁 Configuring the OData URL
   
4. Select Generic Credentials and specify the API Server username and authentication token 👁 Configuring the credentials
   
5. Select the entity you wish to visualize 👁 Selecting an entity to visualize (Salesforce is shown.)
   
6. Select fields and choose a chart type 👁 Visualizing data in Reveal (Salesforce is shown.)
   

More Information & Free Trial

At this point, you have created a simple dashboard from live YouTube Analytics data. For more information on creating OData feeds from YouTube Analytics (and more than 150 other sources), visit the API Server page. Download a free, 30-day trial and start working live YouTube Analytics data in tools that consume OData APIs.